There’s an interesting dynamic at play in the Republican race, and it’s starting to seem like Ted Cruz is the only one who sees it. He’s the only one of the Republican candidates who held his tongue this week when the rest of the field was denouncing Donald Trump.

This isn’t the first time that Cruz has let others do the criticizing. Some have said that Cruz is playing a game, trying to be the Next Best Thing when Trump finally goes too far. And there is probably some truth to that. He’s seen what happens to candidates who go after Trump.

But there’s something else. Cruz is insightful, and he may have figured out the puzzle that is Donald Trump. More precisely, he has seen what Trump has done with one shocking statement after another.

Donald Trump said Muslims should be temporarily barred from entering the country. Everyone went into a frenzy. You have Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and even Dick Cheney out there, and they sound indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Everyone is talking about what a horrible person Trump is…and meanwhile, Trump is talking about ISIS.

By using this technique over and over again, he has accomplished a remarkable thing. Americans who are looking for strength and leadership on the economy, on illegal immigration, on terrorism…they get it in Trump. And then they look around at the other candidates, and what do they see? They see Republicans who sound like Democrats.

Ted Cruz has caught on to this, and that may be why he’s chosen to keep his silence. He quietly disagreed with Trump’s proposal, and he moved on. He didn’t slam him as “repugnant.” He didn’t call him “unhinged.” You know why? Because he knows that Americans get enough of that from the liberal media. They can get that kind of talk from MSNBC. They can get it in press statements from the Obama White House.

The reason a guy like Donald Trump can dominate the Republican primaries is very simple. It’s because the Democrats have swung so far to the left that voters are desperate for someone who speaks the truth.

Just look at the past year. Obama’s amnesty. The Supreme Court decision on gay marriage and the ensuing imprisonment of Kim Davis. The Black Lives Matter movement and the concerted effort to dismantle the nation’s law enforcement. And to top it all off, three major Islamic terrorist attacks, the last of which hit us right where we live. That’s just in the past 12 months of this administration. And the media has championed all of it unabashedly. And now we’re supposed to listen to these same people when they tell us that Donald Trump is dangerous?

Ted Cruz sees what’s happening. He’s been in the Senate trenches, fighting the same weak Republican leadership that Trump has spiritedly denounced. When he talks, he doesn’t sound like Hillary Clinton. He doesn’t sound like the old guard. He understands how frustrated voters are with the venomous liberalism eating our country away.

When these Republicans go after Trump, they’re telling voters a story. A story that says that 2016 is just another election. Hopefully it will go our way but, ya know, if it doesn’t, that’s no biggie. Hillary will probably be just fine. Just, for the love of god, don’t put that guy Trump in there. Are you crazy?

That’s not the story voters are in the mood to hear. This is not just another election. This might be our last chance to turn this country and this culture around before it’s too late. And anyone who doesn’t see it that way might as well drop their campaigns and go to work for Hillary. Let Cruz and Trump duke it out for the nomination.

About the Author

If these two clowns become the nominees, Hillary will not have to spend a dime to get elected.

they are self defeating.

gaeliclass

you are a joke!

Jimmy King

The Jokes gonna be on the republicans when Hillary skates in

RandallFlagg

it will be no surprise king- America is overrun by those unwilling to work. the working class taxpayer is screwed for eternity.
no way out, no salvation. the only advice to the young is to teem up with a woman with wide hips and start shucking out the nigglets. a life’s ride on welfare and uselessness is the best lifestyle from now on.
grow a brain or blow it out! either way will do

Jimmy King

Wow I’d hate to live in your shit shoes. I own 2 companies and both and doing really well, I have no complaints at all as far as that goes. I’d never advise that kind of lifestyle. I think get the best education you can, and a lot of it and work your ass off. This is still the land of opportunity

RandallFlagg

white privilege speaks ^

Jimmy King

Hard work pays off

RandallFlagg

white privilege speaks again ^

Carline D. Long Jr.

Why can’t you see hillary going to prison as it should be?

Brenda

Congrads on your success. Hope you have the foresight to put your money out of the country. Also, you may want to check out the reality of socialism, a principle Hillary has long embraced under the progressive label..

David in MA

Not drinking ripple and shooting midnight hoops will give people a chance to advance, what a concept!

RandallFlagg

ahh yes- Hillary! hoping to continue the blood line of useless maggots feeding and breeding on welfare are we? how many generations is that for you now? 3? 5? or from history back to get a days work out of a black man requires that someone must stand over him with a bull whip. this will never change. uselessness, laziness and diminished intelligence is “native” for your disgusting breed.
you will probably get your wish though. since the number of those unwilling to work exceeds those who have self worth and self esteem. they breed like mice

David in MA

the troll is back!

gaeliclass

right on … truth is Americans are being targeted and killed — how insane is it that when someone who loves his nation and people says ‘let us temporarily stop them from entering’ (note the word temporarily).. the unending saga starts.
Americans are truly nuts if they believe ‘the hype’- they should think twice about who is behind the hype…
………..
Noone wants to fight for their own rights – and that includes Americans too! What on earth is wrong with you people!

Jimmy King

Great Shawn, I’ve been writing this in the comments for weeks. You really uncovered something here, only you figured it out a month after everyone else

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

This was not said a month ago and is important it is said:

When these Republicans go after Trump, they’re telling voters a story. A story that says that 2016 is just another election. Hopefully it will go our way but, ya know, if it doesn’t, that’s no biggie. Hillary will probably be just fine. Just, for the love of god, don’t put that guy Trump in there. Are you crazy?
That’s not the story voters are in the mood to hear. This is not just another election. This might be our last chance to turn this country and this culture around before it’s too late. And anyone who doesn’t see it that way might as well drop their campaigns and go to work for Hillary. Let Cruz and Trump duke it out for the nomination.

Jimmy King

What is it about this Country that needs “turning around” that T Rump is the answer? In your opinion Jeffrey

S Boles

This was right on… the republican hopefuls should thin out a bit…they are just muddying up the waters for the top 4

Conservative

It’s seems the best they can do is join Democrats in bashing Trump. Therefore I agree with you: they should just ‘hang it up’. Everytime I hear them joining the Dems in that bashing, I eliminate them from my mind as having any credibility. It just seems they are so accustomed to being bullied by Dems that react like circus animals. It’s no biggie for me though, I started off supporting CRUZ and nothing has occurred to make me waver. I’ve been sold on him since watching the Senate on C-Span and watching him stand for truth while defying the Dems and RINOs and speaking truth instead of what they THINK the people want to hear. When will the RINOs learn that agreeing with Dems is very self-destructive to not only themselves but to the people who elected them.

Reality Check

BERNIE does NOT bash the moron trump.

STOP LYING.

Justice

Thomas Jefferson: 1816 “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Dr. Carson needs to be in this also. The voice of reason deserves that!

James Garbe

Dr. Carson needs to be in this also. The voice of reason deserves that!
Except for his Pyramid grain storage idea. Where did he get that?

Retired Marine

Your right as rain, Dr. Carson should be in mix, the grain thing is kind of weird. LOL

RandallFlagg

millions see it- trump says it where the rest have bean counters write their speech to save loosing votes.

SouthernPatriot

If anyone disagrees with Trump’s proposal, then where are their proposals? What does Hillebeast/Jezebel have to offer, socialist Bernie, of Bushie? If they had counter-proposals, then make them known, but what they do is attack Donald Trump when he has been the one with testicular fortitude to bring up the subject in the first place, just as he did with illegal felon invaders, or other subjects that he has been the one to start the conversation.

Conservative

I find it absolutely disgusting that now they are saying “Trump is just does not have a winning”. If they feel that way then why are they making arses of themselves even commenting about what he says? Looks like a bunch of little kids who are just jealous of another kid more popular than they are. It is really a turnoff to the people out here and does not promote their own campaigns. When they ‘join’ in with the MSM crowd it just make them look bad. If they keep this foolishness up, they will be the ones giving the presidency to Hellary and will never forget them. Show us what they have to offer and quit wasting time.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

I think you hit the truth directly, most of the republican candidates are acting like children who are not getting their way. Their emotional out bursts against a fellow team member who is winning are despicable and immature.
They believe the system is cheating them out of winning while the obvious is they did themselves in when they opened their mouths.

Reality Check

“If anyone disagrees with Trump’s proposal, then where are their proposals?”

IF you were not such DIM BULB, you would know that Bernie and Hillary have put up extensive policy statements, unlike the moron you support who’s only policy statement is that “It will be HUGE”

on there web sites, easy to find
what topic would you like to compare against trumps idea?

HAS he actually EXPLAINED how he is going to accomplish ANY of the silly things he says?

not that I am aware of.

maybe you can provide me some info since you are worshiping him?

Justice

Your education is more well-rounded. Most of us have some knowledge about Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. We’ve heard quotes by their founders, we know some of what they teach, we know a little of their history, etc. But almost every westerner is ignorant of the most basic teachings of Islam.

So if you’re interested in being a generally well-rounded, educated citizen — even if you didn’t care about terrorism or world events — you should want to learn about Islam.

In addition, of course, is the fact that almost all the armed conflicts in the world today involve Muslims in one way or another. And almost all terrorism is Islamic and fundamentally motivated by the teachings of Islam, as the terrorists themselves tell us proudly.

Reality Check

I HAVE LIVED IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

EMIRCITNA

EVER THINK about….RETURNING?!

Justice

There is no better way to show Allah your devotion than jihad, according to the Qur’an. As far as Allah is concerned, actions speak louder than words. It doesn’t matter how you feel. It doesn’t matter if you’d rather just live a good life. Allah expects you to fight for Islam wherever you are and even if you don’t feel like it, and to fight in whatever way you can.

Reality Check

“And almost all terrorism is Islamic and fundamentally motivated by the teachings of Islam, as the terrorists themselves tell us proudly.”

STOP LYING

Justice

Sharia law is Islamic law. Sharia is the basis for every demand that Muslims make on our society. When schools are asked to give up a room for Islamic prayer, that is asking us to implement Sharia law. When a Muslim wears a head scarf, that is in obedience to Sharia law. When our newspapers would not publish the Danish Mohammed cartoons, our newspapers were submitting to the demands of Sharia law. When demands are made for our hospitals to treat Muslim women in special ways, that is Sharia. When our textbooks have to be vetted by Muslim organizations before they are used in our schools, that is in accordance with Sharia law.

Reality Check

PS fool, Bernie has not attacked ANYONE.

WHY do you LIE all the time?
is it those conservative roots that tell you to lie?

Justice

President Andrew Jackson: 1829-1837 “You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.”

Penny Stute

Ted Cruz has determined ( a long time ago) not to answer people who are rude, crude, and in your face, in a like manner. He is a man of dignity and has no desire to join a melee with rude people, preferring to keep the focus on the issues, not those who desire attention for themselves. This is a long standing method he has developed, and it has nothing to do with using it as a weapon against Trump or anybody else, and Shawn I think you should retract this statement.
Perhaps Cruz thinks he can learn something from Trump, perhaps he hopes he might find an insight into what the public really would like to see happen. Perhaps he is just respectful of others! Have you ever seen Cruz act rude, brash, or respond to those who do? No, you have not, and by insinuating that he does and is trying to use Trump against Trump brings you to the level of the liberal media! Anything for a bloody feeding frenzy.
If we do not begin to unite as a party, we will indeed have clinton following in obama’s footprints, only in a much more violent way. Trump and Cruz both are two mighty fine men and I would be pleased to see either one of them in the WH. But you Shawn, just want to create hate and discontent.
As for you folks who are proponents of clinton-one can’t fix stupid~

Conservative

The simple answer is that CRUZ is a man of great integrity and intelligence. When he says something you never have to wonder if it is just idle campaign speak with no substance behind it. Everyone should have learned after believing anything Obummer or Hellary ever said.

Reality Check

he denies Climate Change.
NO ONE is getting elected who does not believe in Climate change.

some yahoo red districts may still go for the dumb shit who is in denial, but over all, this is going to be a big issue for you morons against science.

Justice

New York Times editorial complained: “Right now, everyone is using the atmosphere like a municipal dump, depositing carbon dioxide free.” Of course, the assertion that we owe something for the right to put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is based on the myth of human-caused global warming.

OSAMA OBAMA

“THE WORLD HAS A FEVER” LMAO!!! Then Gore went on to make 90 million off of this fraud science, while buying four carbon spewing mansions. Don’t forget that global warming is more dangerous that islamic terrorism!

June

So? What’s your point? Since the beginning of time the climate has changed–when it wants to. Life forms on the earth have little control over whether it will rain, snow, or if the sun will shine. Some of us simply refuse to believe that we’re just tiny dots in the universe who don’t control much at all. Get over it.

James Garbe

The Science???????????? The “science” show with FACT that the ice caps are growing, NOT shrinking.
It may be “climate change”, but it sure the hell is NOT “global warming”. Ever hear of twist and spin? That is what they do to keep your mind off real matters that mean something!

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

I read Shawn’s article twice and still have missed the statement you seem offended by. Can you please copy it and past it to a comment.

Penny Stute

Mr Douglas, I was going to do what you requested but I would have had to paste the entire article. I felt that the article was saying that Cruz has adopted a new technique ( not speaking back aggressively) because he has been watching Trump’s response and news coverage. Thereby, implying Cruz has adjusted his responses and techniques by observing Trump, which is in fact not the case.
Mr Cruz has never been a person who wants to verbally “duke it out”. He says what he means and means what he says, and has done so long before Trump was on the political scene.
Reread this article and see if you get what I mean now! There was definitely that undertone as far as I am concerned, and every time I reread it I get the same feeling.
Cruz does not need to change who he is, he is one of the finest men in our nation!

Penny Stute

Mr Douglas, I wrote a reply to your question last night but somehow it did not get posted. To begin with, I would have to cut and paste the entire article. You have to look for the subtleties in Shawn’s article to understand what I mean. What came thru to me is that Shawn inferred that Ted Cruz was somehow covertly adjusting his behavior and responses as he studied Trump’s popularity with pubs and conservatives, so that Cruz might overtake Trump in the polls.
Anybody who knows Cruz would understand that that is an absolute lie. Even the inference is a lie. Cruz has deliberately decided to keep his actions and reactions on the issues. He has refused to respond to the audience/press in an inflammatory manner for that very reason. So to intimate that he needs to study Trump to decide how to adjust /run his campaign to effectively beat Trump at his own game is absolutely ludicrous.
I am not a person given to flights of fancy, but I do recognize unspoken messages quite well, and this was one of them as far as I am concerned. Reread the article yet again and see if you can understand where I am coming from.
By the way, this has nothing to do with Trump vs Cruz, rather the message Shawn was sending, particularly the first two paragraphs, esp the “This isn’t the first time Cruz has allowed somebody else to do his speaking for him” ( paraphrased) and “Cruz is playing a game, trying to be the next best thing when Trump topples”. The entire article, in fact was accusatory about Cruz and I believe it was intended to be, else why write it that way. I have taken a number of journalism classes, on my way to a graduate degree, so I am well versed in innuendo and believe me Shawn was doing that exact thing-deny tho he will~

UBBLUE15

BUT, do enough Americans want dignity, calmness, and respectfulness?

I agree with your statement, but we live in a trashy society that got this way for a variety of reasons. The trash mentality really took off during the 90’s with bill clinton as liar-in-chief and do-nothing prez.

Reality Check

so I see you are in your “stupid” persona today.

Clinton who left a balanced budget and created 22 million jobs?

Clinton who left a surplus that was squandered by the conservative GW?

Americas mentality took a hit when Fox news got started followed by Right Wing Propaganda that you support.

the bloggers on this thread have the collective IQ of a kindergartner.

Justice

Dr. Adam [Spartacus] Weishaupt: “Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible.”

OSAMA OBAMA

“the bloggers on this thread have the collective IQ of a kindergartner.”…If your dogass left, it would rise by 200 points!
Character: Constant
scandals took Clinton’s focus off running the country. When Paula Jones
sued Clinton for sexual harassment, he became the first sitting
president to testify before a grand jury investigating his own conduct. [3]
An affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky culminated in
Clinton’s impeachment by the House of Representatives on Dec. 19, 1998
on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. The only other
president in US history to be impeached was Andrew Johnson in 1868. [4] Some
blame Clinton’s moral shortcomings for disenfranchising Democratic
Party members and Independents, and causing Al Gore to lose the 2000
presidential election. [28]

Crime: The
number of federal prisoners doubled under Clinton, and 58 percent of
them were serving time for drug-related offenses. Resources were geared
towards incarceration instead of rehabilitation or crime prevention. [29] Clinton’s 1994 Crime Bill was filled with “pork spending” that distributed $10 billion to states and special interest groups. [30]

Defense: Clinton
was unable to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal the ban on
homosexuals serving in the military. Faced with strong opposition from
conservatives early in his presidency, Clinton settled on a compromise
policy referred to as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which allowed gays to
serve in the military if they did not disclose their sexual orientation.
Neither conservatives nor liberals were satisfied by the outcome. [24]

Economy: Clinton
gets too much credit for the good economy of the 1990s, which was
already growing when he took office. The Republican-controlled Congress
helped improve the economy by exercising fiscal restraint. [31]
Clinton’s failure to regulate the financial-services markets enabled
the bad lending and Wall Street scams that led to the 2007 banking
crisis. [32]

Education:
Clinton’s Goals 2000 program did not ensure uniform quality of
standards among all the states because he compromised on oversight to
get the program passed. The impact therefore varied by state and Clinton
never fulfilled his goal of equalizing education standards and
improving results for all students. By 2000, six years after IASA was
implemented, only 17 states were in full compliance with the standards. [12]

Environment: Clinton
passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) despite the fact
that it traded lower environmental standards for increased free trade. [33] NAFTA resulted in more air pollution on the US/Mexico border, which experts estimated would cost $15 billion to clean up. [34]
Clinton also signed a 1995 measure to allow logging in national forests
which suspended environmental laws protecting those forests. [35]

Foreign Policy: A
year after 18 American troops were killed in a failed 1993 mission to
capture a warlord in Somalia, Clinton was hesitant to take action to
stop a genocide in Rwanda. While he failed to act, more than half a
million Tutsis were murdered. Critics accused Clinton of appeasement
when he gave China Most Favored Nation (MFN) status despite their
terrible human rights record and when he granted North Korea concessions
in exchange for a promise to discontinue their nuclear weapons program.
[36]

Health:
Health care reform was Clinton’s major goal when he took office but his
administration was ill-prepared for such a large task and made several
missteps. Republican opposition was insurmountable and Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell (D-ME) declared on Sep. 26, 1994 that Clinton’s
plan would never pass. The failure is considered the biggest of his
administration in part because it led to the Republicans regaining
control of Congress in the next election but also because he expended a
lot of political capital without getting anything in return. [24] [37] [38]

Science / Technology:
Clinton cut NASA’s budget by $715 million in 1995 (about 5%) and did
not restore the bulk of the money until three months before he left
office. The result was a space program struggling to operate with less
money for most of Clinton’s time in office. Some blame the 2003 Space
Shuttle Columbia explosion on Clinton’s decision to slash NASA’s budget
by an aggregate of $56 million over his presidency. [39]

Social Policy:
Clinton neglected to take to steps to restructure Social Security and
Medicare. In anticipation of the upcoming Baby Boom generation retiring
and drawing heavily on those social services, Clinton should have worked
to secure those programs. In a June 20, 2004 interview with 60 Minutes,
he admitted “I’m sorry on the home front that we didn’t get healthcare
and that we didn’t reform Social Security.” [40][41]

Taxes:
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 increased the gasoline
tax by 4.3 cents per gallon, which directly impacted the middle class. [42]
The 1993 tax hikes cannot be credited with the economic boom of the
1990s: it was after the Republican Congress passed tax cuts in 1997 that
the economy really became stronger and the budget was balanced. [43]
Clinton designed his tax plans to place an unfair burden on the
wealthy, punishing the most productive members of the US economy while
cutting taxes for the least productive. [44]

Other:
Clinton failed to deal with the threat of Osama bin Laden, whose
terrorist acts escalated and culminated in the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks
that killed 2,973 people. Clinton was too distracted by scandals such as
the threat of impeachment to take action against Al Qaeda. [45]
A former CIA station chief in Pakistan said Clinton ordered the CIA to
capture bin Laden alive, which resulted in a missed opportunity to kill
him at an al-Qaida training camp in 2000. [46]

Background: “Was Bill Clinton a Good President?”

Reality Check

are you stupid enough to think any one on the this thread even cares about Hillary or is voting for her?

or that if she is the nominee, any sane person(dem/liberal) is not going to vote for her?

Penny Stute

You know I rarely respond to stupid comments, but your bias and IQ is showing when you say that about people who disagree with you. And, there is also wisdom and common sense that adds to one’s IQ, which by your comments, it is obvious that you are lacking in IQ in every area.
Anybody with any wisdom respects people who challenge their thinking but you libs have been slinging mud for nearly 8 years but you have no data that proves what you are saying-just hot air and name calling.

Reality Check

” obama and company will declare martial law and suspend elections indefinately”

what more evidence does one need Penny, that you have the IQ of a radish?

this kind of GARBAGE does not deserve any kind of respect.
you people are a cancer who post this shit.

You also seen the Bill Clinton administration practice the first gun control and secure of guns take place in Waco Texas and Ruby Ridge!

June

Agree, but it wasn’t this bad until Obuma took office and pushed his “free stuff agenda” to everyone who voted for him.

Penny Stute

Oh UBBLUE15, I so agree with you, and therein lies the condition of our nation. We have a population who want absolutely no restraints on their behaviour, no matter how foul and degrading it is; and we are supposed to swallow it. However, they want to restrain anybody who thinks, acts, and believes differently than they do. Even to the point of rigging elections!
The interesting and sad thing is, they are going to find out just what it feels like to have their own behavior checked because we are going to have an influx of radical muslims who want to enact sharia law and I think it is going to happen soon. This has been the entire purpose of this administration from the get go and we allowed it to happen. I would be surprised if we ever seat another president, because if conservatives do win the wh, obama and company will declare martial law and suspend elections indefinately, and he is paying the united nations to be his police force to ensure his position, and that is one of the reasons they want our guns~

Sharia is already being applied in the applications of political correctness. Once the religious freedoms have been naturalized its Game on, you are right they need some form of gun control first!

peter

Trump and Cruz would be a very good ticket. Trump could insult Hillary in a debate and Cruz could wipe the floor with her in a debate.

Reality Check

She will rip him to shreds since all he is is HOT AIR.
SHE isn’t going to let Trump make up poo like You fools do.

tell me a policy that Trump has put forward?

“NO DETAILS” is his claim to fame and you low info cons support that?

so much for critical thinking.

Justice

George Washington: 1798 Acknowledged that Illuminati activity had come to the USA: “It is not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am.”

you faggott, what do you have too think with? a BB sized brain rolling around in a boxcar.. ya faggott..

Reality Check

so tell me what I have said that is in error?

lets hear some of trumps specific plans?

wendy deswert

Let me ask you, what specific plans has Hillary set forth? Most running for president speak in generic terms because they are NOT yet president. Having siad that, I heard Trump spell out a specific plan for the economy.

Reality Check

“I heard Trump spell out a specific plan for the economy.”

sure you did, “IT WILL BE HUGE!”

so why no link to THAT?

Reality Check

If you listen closely, Trump has proposed doing this two ways: slapping tariffs on foreign goods and negotiating better trade deals. In his campaign announcement speech, he threatened a 35% tax onFord (F) vehicles made in Mexico that are brought back to the U.S. to be sold, and in 2011, he has made headlines for suggesting a 25% tariff on goods coming from China to the U.S.

At face value, what Trump has proposed would start an immediate trade war that would likely hurt American jobs and exports.

so a 35% INCREASED tax and the con is good with that?

and then a 25% tax increase on other goods.

I thought cons were against TAX INCREASES not embracing 25% increases in EVERYTHING from China, which is most of what we buy.

But Trump likes to play both sides on trade. He says he is against the Obama administration’s currentTrans-Pacific Partnership — known as TPP — but he also espouses, “I am a free trader.” In his mind, the problem is that China has better negotiators than the U.S. (even though China is not a part of TPP).

2. Keep the minimum wage … but not increase it. Trump is one of the few Republicans in the 2016 field who isn’t skeptical of the usefulness of a federal minimum wage, but he doesn’t think it should be increased from the current rate of $7.25 an hour..

well that will get him NO VOTES from the lower part of society versus Bernie who going for $15/hr.

WHO do you think the poor are going to vote for?

Reality Check

Trump argues that raising the minimum wage would make U.S. employees less competitive with foreign workers and thus make it harder to keep jobs in America.

How exactly are we ever going to compete with china wages?

the man must be a moron.
OR’
he’s playing the low functioning cons for what they are, SUCKERS

Penny Stute

I do not know what world you live in! I continue to read your ignorant and niaeve responses and rose-colored view of what is happening in this world, and I just have to ask you what planet are you living on? Because you certainly do not reflect what is going on in this world today. Perhaps you have gone down the rabbit hole? Or perhaps you have had electric shock therapy, a lobotomy? Then again, perhaps you have bypassed parental control of the computer, because your responses are so juvenile, they could not be coming from an adult!
Something has definitely taken your brain hostage, and I say that with all sincerity! If you have any money to spend, I have a lot of stuff I could sell you or perhaps I could sell you to one of those “kind muslim men who live according to the Koran” that you so vehemently champion. Heck, I will even sell you a burka. You can use it to hide the violations they will heap upon you in their oh so kind way! Perhaps before they behead you they will allow you to tell the world how lovely it is to be their bride.
I can only say, that as Isis and other muslim jihadist’s begin their reign of terror, I hope you live long enuf to see them unleash their kindness on your loved ones before they bless you with their peaceful weapons of allah. And you sweet billary will be clapping her hands as they take you to the block! Ignorance is excusable, but to revel in one’s ignorance is inexcusable. That would be ignorant and stupid~

Reality Check

tell me moron, what THAT had to do with the minimum wage post?

It was a very nice word salad.
Sarah Palin would hire you immediately to write her speeches..

I see you are also a hysterical American afraid of your own shadow.

I live in the land of the BRAVE not the land of the chicken shit.

Penny Stute

As far as I can see from all of your comments, you do indeed live in the land of chickenshit and stupidity. I was referring to all of your chatter in totality! And this is evidenced by the fact that you are unable to engage in reasonable discourse without devolving into juvenile posturing and name calling. You may respond to this reply but I will not take the time to fix stupid simply because stupid people like being stupid – discourse (that would be conversation )with you is a complete waste of time ~

Reality Check

From Hillary (but I support Bernie)

Strong growth

Hillary will invest in infrastructure, clean energy, and scientific and medical research to create jobs and strengthen our economy. And she’ll provide tax relief to working families and small businesses. That’s how we’ll move toward a full employment economy that creates jobs, pushes businesses to compete over workers, and raises incomes.

Provide tax relief for families. Hillary will cut taxes for hard-working families to increase their take-home pay as they face rising costs from child care, health care, and sending their kids to college. She is calling for extending a tax cut of up to $2,500 per student to help deal with college costs as part of her New College Compact, and for cutting taxes for businesses that share profitswith their employees.

Unleash small business growth. Hillary’s father owned a small business—and she understands that small businesses are the backbone of jobs and growth in America. She’s put forward a small-business agenda to expand access to capital, provide tax relief, cut red tape, and help small businesses bring their goods to new markets.

Create a New College Compact. Hillary’s New College Compact will invest $350 billion so that students do not have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college in their state. Her plan will also significantly cut interest rates on student loans and enable an estimated 25 million Americans with student debt to refinance at today’s lower rates, saving the typical borrower $2,000 over the life of their loans.

Boost public investment in infrastructure and scientific research. One of the best ways to drive jobs and improve our nation’s competitiveness is to invest in infrastructure and scientific research. Hillary has called for a national infrastructure bank that would leverage public and private funds to invest in projects across the country. She will call for reform that closes corporate tax loopholes and drives investment here, in the U.S. And she would increase funding for scientific research at agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Lift up participation in the workforce—especially for women. For too long, issues like equal pay, paid leave, and affordable child care have been put off to the side as “women’s issues.” Hillary believes they are crucial to our competitiveness and growth—and to lifting incomes for working families.

Fair growth

Inequality is a drag on our economy, and to get incomes rising again, we need to renew our country’s basic bargain. With near-record corporate profits and stagnant wages, the deck is stacked against working Americans. If you work hard, you deserve to get ahead and stay ahead.

GEE, and NONE of it contradicts itself unlike Trumps plan and “thoughts” on the matter.

JB Wright

Personally I would rather have a “newbie” in office who doesn’t get much done in the way of policy making, than have a worn out angry bitch like Hitlery making policies that will culminate in a destroyed America. We don’t “need” more policy, what we need is to revise policy we have to make some damn sense. What can’t be revised should be shredded, we have libraries of bad policy, large building full of laws that infringe on the rights of American, most of which were ultimately created by lobbyist’s, not Americans who value their freedom

Jon west

Coming from the lowest of info voter. You are just dumber than a sack of rocks!

Reality Check

Trump whined after a 2 hour debate, Hillary did 11 hours with 7 hostile GOP prosecutors and came out on top.

you think the guy who whines is going rip up Hillary?

Justice

The “NEW WORLD ORDER” is the GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM dream that a BANKER called Mayer Amschel Rothschild, helped revive in 1760’s to protect his private bank from global government regulation. His grand blue print is best described by his paid social engineer called Dr. Adam [Spartacus] Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law in the university of Ingolstadt. Weishaupt adopted the term “Illuminati.”

This nightmare is still sought after today by their family’s decedents.

OSAMA OBAMA

LMAO!!! Ha Ha Ha! Spoken like the senile Kalaphornian you are!

Sue4477

Why give the troll your response? If you ignored it, it wouldn’t be encouraged to talk back and maybe it would go away.

James Garbe

Trump is doing it for his country and also has other important things to do. Hillary was just fighting for her next breath.

Ah nutz

on top of what , She’s a very practiced liar-that’s all- she really has nothing more to her favor.

dennodog

If you think being caught in multiple lies means she “came out on top” you need a shrink. Since the “hostile” interview, scores of other lies have been discovered, ironically exposed by her own e-mails. The shrew’s “one on one” with Trump won’t be buffered by friendly “moderators” and media hacks. She’ll stink like a cheap cigar by the time either trump of Cruz gets finished with her.

Jon west

Don’t you mean a cheap cigar that her husband “used”.

dennodog

No Jon. That cigar’s disposal is being featured on an episode of “World’s Dirtiest Jobs”, coming soon to a station near you. lol

jreg9304

a debate between 2 different parties will be totally different. let the insults begin.

James Garbe

NO doubt what-so-ever! Cannot wait.

jreg9304

i want to see when she totally loses it and starts babbeling like a troll. that will be hilarious.

shamil

I agree with Trump and Cruz, but also believe that there are some good muslims here. Here is a story about a converted terrorist:

If they convert (Christianity?), they are not Muslim anymore.
It is great when a terrorist, or anyone, chooses Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Thanks for the link.

Reality Check

how can you agree with Trump and then say there are some good Muslims?

Trump wants them ALL banned.

Stevon f. Nutt

Read their Religious book, if then, you still think Islam is a Religion of peace you need to seek some Mental Health care!

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

Stevon f. Nutt, your comment may be one I agree with, but you must not have read the article you are commenting on. You just insulted your audience as all Republican candidates except Trump and Cruz have done and is the point of the artical.

Justice

Of all the benefits of learning about Islam, this is probably the one that had the most impact on me. Political events that have been happening since I can remember — the hostage situations and hijacked planes and bombings all seemed so unnecessary and confusing. And you can watch the news all day and get no clarity whatsoever about why these things are happening and what they all have to do with each other. It’s a relief to finally comprehend the bigger picture.

Reality Check

so explain why the 180 million Muslim in Indonesia live peacefully with the 24 million Christians and 10 million Hindus, if what you say is even remotely true?

STEVE LIES like a cheap RUG.

Justice

Confusing current events become understandable. Once you learn what’s really going on, the scary terrorist events that make you think, “Why are they doing this?!” are suddenly illuminated, and you know exactly why they’re doing it, and why most westerners don’t have a clue about what’s going on.

You would think that learning about Islamic jihad would make you hate Muslims, but strangely enough, it does the opposite. Most Muslims are in an even worse situation than the infidels. The more you learn about Islam, the more sympathy you have for Muslims who had no choice in the matter and cannot escape without risking their lives and the lives of everyone they love.

But sometimes learning about the subject is upsetting. It is a shock to learn what’s in the Koran, knowing that one and a half billion human beings believe this is the final message from the supreme ruler of the universe.

But after you get over the shock, it makes world events less upsetting. You will understand what’s going on for the first time. You will no longer feel as exasperated or wonder what the hell is happening in this crazy world. You’ll finally understand.

Reality Check

I KNOW whats going ON.

YOU ARE A MORON.

that is what is going on.

OSAMA OBAMA

Change your Depends senility chick!

OSAMA OBAMA

Brilliant response to someone DUMB enough to respond to you civilly! Now wipe the sputum off of your double chin!

jreg9304

don’t you mean smegma? LOL

Justice

This is an excerpt from the book, It’s All About Muhammad by Frank Burleigh. I thought it was a great summary of what Sharia Law is:

“What became Muhammad’s law was a combination of Koran verses and his Sunna — his ‘legal ways,’ essentially meaning what he himself did in every situation, whether it was a formal pronouncement or merely the example of his behavior. This amalgamation was called then, and it is still called today, the Sharia, from the word for path. Walk along the path paved with the flagstones of Muhammad’s verses and personal example and surely you will reach Paradise.”

Jon west

Really dumbass. My favorite moron is back as usual. Let’s play dipshit. Have you ever really read the Koran I have. Everything said here about the Koran is absolutely true. Why don’t you go play with some explosives.

Reality Check

so why don’t you explain why Indonesia is so peaceful, huh fool?

you seem to have skipped that part while bloviating about the Koran.

James Garbe

If they (peaceful Muslims) do not like it they can stand with people that also detest this CULT and help stomp it out, otherwise they are complacent and of little value to anyone including what they wish to believe.

JB Wright

Yep! And after all, who is in a better position to flush out the radicals than the “peaceful” walking beside them. If they are unwilling to take a stand against terrorist, they are as bad as terrorist’s

VanceJ

I think you would be wise, to read the Quran before you make statements you know nothing about, that’s obvious. it just shows you ignorance.!!!!!!

Sue4477

I guess you know you’re wasting your time talking to a useless troll.

VanceJ

Ah well, one can but try, to get through to these knuckle heads.

jreg9304

you’ve got that right. checky boy is a worthless troll.. Obama is his pariah.

Michelle Minze-Bryant

Some people don’t take their religious books so literally. Obviously a lot take it to the extreme.

I was looking up stuff on Google about death in the Bible and killing people. Some who Bloged definatly weren’t Christians, taking things out of context. I’m not good with remembering bible verses verbatim, but I remember one that has “you should surely die”. They took that to mean God is going to kill you. When it means your good spirit will leave you, of sorts. Well, of course the Bible warns us of such things. Satan knows the Bible forward and backward to trick faithful Christians.

Anyhow, I don’t think all Muslims are bad or hateful, some have probably been Americanized. Some may just go by the first book, which is more about peace, but in book two is when he turns to hate. Hopefully the peaceful Muslims who actually have their hearts in the right place, become Christian before Jesus comes back.

Justice

Orthodox Muslims are doing this all over the world, attacking westerners and their own fellow Muslims alike. Why?

You must really compare the Koran with the 1 page evidence that proves http://www.GodAuthoredBible.com Then you can prove to your self that Satan authored the Koran. That evil book hates everything God loves.

Dan Menard

Of the two major religious books, the Quran and the Bible, only one of these two books preaches peace, love, forgiveness and kindness to others. Would you care to guess which text that would be? Of the two books noted, which one never mentions their god as a God of love, compassion, tolerance and forgiveness? When you figure that out, you will have told everyone here much about yourself and what your cultural values are. Then too, you might have learnt something in the process!

Austinniceguy

LOL. You made yourself read like a moron. You expect all the radicalized savage animals to follow a peaceful tome? These animals mean to take over the world and NOT by reading their books to Christians and prove to us WHY our way is wrong. These guys want to rape young boys while denouncing homosexuality and rape then kill women, for being whores. Before posting your lunacy on here please, think of the reality of what these animals are doing and why.

Thank you! I tried posting this video. How did you get it to work, please?

runnindeer

“Nice Guy” ? Dan Menard wasn’t telling radical’s to follow any tome. He was following the thread about how different both books are and that if anyone is interested to compare points of interest they should read both and learn that only the Bible teaches a GOD of love, peace and forgiveness. It isn’t meant to try to get Muslims to read it.
Your post is very good other than your negativity to that man that didn’t sound like a “moron ” at all .

jreg9304

cultural values?? why do you think the Bible is called the GOOD BOOK. moron!

David in MA

Cruz wants to be president and if not, then vice. president. To bad he is not constitutionally eligible.
If people would take a good hard look at Cruz they just might agree with my opinion that he is not constitutionally eligible to be president OR v. president. He was born in Canada, and all else aside, remained a Canadian citizen for over 20 years, he did not seek to claim which country he wanted to be a citizen of at age 18 when the decision is to be made, he remained a Canadian citizen. My humble opinion is: Cruz is an illegal immigrant, illegally elected a senator and constitutionally ineligible to be the president or vice president and that he is subject to deportation and the only way to become an American citizen is via the immigration process, which as an immigrant is also ineligible to be president.
Just like McCain, Obama and maybe a few others….. America has to return to vetting candidates at all levels of government.

zoehoney

Obama got in.

zoehoney

Also I think Mr. Cruz is smart enough that if that were the case he would NOT be wasting time and money to run. DAH!

David in MA

so that makes it ok?

Reality Check

no, it proves you are stupid.

is Dave really so challenged as to think that IF Cruz was ineligible the other GOP would have let him get this far?

THAT is very low functioning, Dave.

David in MA

No troll, they would let it go “this far” for the simple reason: Obama did it, so why can’t we? And, you know what, there are a lot of people in America that have no problem with further disregard for the Constitution. I am all for supporting the constitution as the framers understood it (as best I can understand them), How about you, you favor the un-American idea the Constitution has seen it’s time and should be shredded?

Reality Check

I will stick with the guys with a lot more education in these matters, rather than a dim con.

D Books

It’s been investigated over and over again and Cruz is eligible to hold office. That was a bunch of rubbish dreamed up by the dems trying to destroy any possible threat to their stronghold on the pulse of this great country. I genuinely question obammy’s eligibility but he/george soros has spent millions on a good forger and buying people off so I’ve let that go…..he has too many other strikes against him anyhow.

David in MA

I say to you BS!
A person cannot hold citizenship in another country for over twenty years and just say, ooop’s, I renounce it and am running for president. Think what you will, but I say Cruz is not an American citizen because of the holding ov Canadian citizenship for that length of time. And your the only one who has suggested it is dreamed up by the democrats, I have seen no heard anything like that at all.

I don’t care about this BS, anyone who holds citizenship in another country for over twenty years is a citizen of THAT country, not America, in my book. Cruz is being given a break just like McCain was. America is lost with this type of activity.

Reality Check

Dave hates facts, they get in the way of his silliness.

David in MA

Stayed up late Troll just to post this nonsense?

Reality Check

I live in Ca not too bright con.

absinthe

Do high school students still read Milton? “Paradise Lost” was a bit of a slog, but our teacher was good. He taught us the Miltonic principle: Satan prefers to reign in Hell rather than to serve God in Heaven.

That is what we have with the Republican “establishment”, a group of people who would rather run a minority party than run the country. That is why they are so desperate to run Trump out of the party and, if they had their druthers, out of the country. Cruz sounds better all of the time.

UBBLUE15

Good point.

We are forgetting one important thing here…the voter.
This nation is so divided along race, religion, and any other classification, that logic and morals have no place here anymore. Voters are voting for inane issues of selfism as opposed to the good of the country and posterity.

hillary, and others, know this and all past pandering has, and will, pay off. Psyche manipulation (collectively) at its best, or worst.

Can you see this in people taking selfies and the popularity of Facebook? It all relates.

Reality Check

so you find any article AGAINST the TPP in Right Wing Media YET?

should be about time some of you silly cons figure out these blogs are not on your side.
they are only here to Lead you about BY the NOSE.

still haven’t figured that out yet, Blue?

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

No, they don’t read anything written before the federal government took control of education. The GOP leaders don’t like Cruz either. The GOP is guilty of stinking thinking and obviously way out of touch with life in America for 90% of the voters. As for Cruz remember, Cruz, just recently, in effect would not ban Muslims from coming into America, which would protect Americans including those who happen to be Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christians, and more. And is probably the only choice which would not take rights and freedoms from Americans with intrusive laws and powers given to departments of the federal government that would have to be removed, if possible when we become safe, if ever again.

EMIRCITNA

“He understands how frustrated voters are with the venomous liberalism eating our country away.”
“FRUSTRATED” is NOT the word;……DISGUSTED, IS!!!!!!!!

Reality Check

You fools should be aware that America is even MORE upset about the wackadoodle cons that are embarrassing the USA, while voting for the morons who are trying to make us all into slave workers.

Justice

BANKER: Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1828 “Allow me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws.” [Even a 4 year old can understand that people with control of money…write the laws!]

OSAMA OBAMA

LMAO…You haven’t worked a day in your putrid life!

Reality Check

well that is your education level.

World Watcher

There is no question you can ask a Muslim they are directed by their book to deceive the nonbelievers Duh

Clarification is what Mr. Trump needs at this time a list of countries Iran Iraq Turkey Saudi Arabia Egypt anyone from these lands cannot travel to America by any means and other words they cannot take a bus 500 miles and get on a smaller airline that has to be stopped now or never the ball is in their court

you must not let them take your balls.

Reality Check

“There is no question you can ask a Muslim they are directed by their book to deceive the nonbelievers Duh”

After reading your comment I don’t know what you are trying to saying. I can’t provide you either thumb.

World Watcher

Used to drive me up the wall how people could not see what is happening right before their eyes! When the young left realizes their way of government can only create mass Graves. They flip out go to no gun zone create chaos the Islamic’s and the leftists are from the same tree different branch.It is amazing when the Lord God blinds a people

Ken

Bottom line here is this. It’s Trump or Revolution. We want someone that is a real person not another Republican elite. Time to take the nation back and put some common values and common sense in our government. The Democrats are stupid and a bunch of nation destroyers (our nation)! Hillary should be in prison along with her husband, Obama, Kerry and the list goes on and on.
WE HAVE THE BEST GOVERNMENT THAT MONEY CAN BUY!!! AND THEY ALL HAVE BEEN BOUGHT!

zoehoney

Trump is all talk. He can only do so much and not have it be illegal. We have a constitution for a reason it is a check and balance. he cannot do 90% of what he is spouting off he will do. The guy is full of ego has no concept of the LAW or so it seems. He gets a rise (ego) out of all the attention. He is for LAND EASEMENT pay attention to that! Many fell for Obama he is like him in many ways. A wolf in a fancy suit! Cruz PAY ATTENTION TO HIM please listen to what he says he is the guy!

kotoc

It really DOES make a difference, though, as to what Trump says vs. what Obama said when he was running for President. Obama said, “We live in the greatest country on Earth. We can change it.”… (or something like that.) His “hope and change” turned out to make us the laughing stock of the world. On the other hand, Trump says he wants to close the borders and keep ISIS and illegals OUT of America… you know, the people infiltrating our country to do us harm, and suck up taxpayers’ money. I’d go with Trump any day!!

UBBLUE15

As someone has pointed out, as President, Trump can’t do half of what he says. Most of these promises require a consensus from Congress and court to the people/voters.

It is logical and legal to impose a moratorium on ALL immigration since the nation is under attack and it IS war. People just can’t seem to understand it. But, how would we secure borders if we can’t stem the flow of illegals now?

Be wary of those who proclaim promises they may not be able to keep, at least under “normal” circumstances.

kotoc

Yes, I agree that the new orders proposed by Trump seem out of reach, and it DOES take an act of Congress to pass such new restrictions, but think about all the times that Obama has overrode the Congress vote to impose HIS initiatives on our country. It’s infuriating! What we need is America to stand behind Trump in this endeavor.

At the least, it is on his mind to something about major problems created by the present state department. Trump is telling us what he will do. He has solutions that will affect Americas problems. The rest, excepting Ted Cruz and possibly Ben Carson act like leaders I’ve seen in the past 60 years who do nothing but talk even after they got the power to do somthing.

Penny Stute

I think you are quite mistaken about Cruz in that he is like the leaders we have had in the last 60 years. He is a brilliant man. One of the reasons presidents can’t get anything done is because of the lifetime politicians. They threaten, bully, and contain anybody who tries to accomplish things but because of the senior members they are shut out. We seriously need new blood in our lawmaking bodies, including a term limit of all of them including the unsupreme court!

U.S. MALE

Jeff didn’t say Cruz was like the leaders of the past. He said “the rest EXCEPTING Cruz & possibly Carson act like leaders I’ve seen in the past 60 yrs….” As for the rest of your post, I agree 100%.

Penny Stute

U.S. Male, My apologies! You are absolutely right and I appreciate that you brought this to my attention, especially in such a cordial manner. Please accept my apology. I have extended an apology to Mr Douglas as well. Again, many thanx~

Penny Stute

Mr Douglas, U.S. Male was kind enough to point out that I made a mistake in reading your post. After rereading what you wrote, I see that he was absolutely correct. I would like to extend my apologies for that error and hope that you will accept it? And, I promise to read more carefully in the future~

Reality Check

so even YOU are at war with Islam?

I take back what I said about you being rational.

UBBLUE15

RC, I’m not at war with Islam, that’s ludicrous.
I’m haven’t been tricked into thinking that Islam is “peaceful”.
Do the math. If 1 billion people are Muslim but only, say 20% are radical, how many could actually be a problem anywhere? 200 million? Gee, that’s a lot of problem.

A filtering system needs to be in place but if the government cannot determine right from wrong, it wouldn’t have the balls to even implement a strategy, let alone plan one.

I just hate to see innocent people get hurt or killed. This is our country so let’s stop the pandering to people who hate us.

Let’s see an original idea from you.

Reality Check

YA BUT,
there is not 20%. you just pulled that number out of your ass.

there is 30,000 ISIS, so that’s .0002% of Muslims.

I’ll even give you a zero..
ow about you cons get a grip on reality, if that was your idea of IT.

20% is YOU Flapping your Gums like most ignorant tools of Right Wing Propaganda.

UBBLUE15

RC, have a great day. Look out for the bats, they may be loaded……

Reality Check

“I just hate to see innocent people get hurt or killed.”

there were 353 MASS SHOOTINGS this year alone and you cons don’t want to do anything about IT.

so why pretend you care about DEATHS?

your BRAINWASHED to be afraid.

your BRAINWASHED to be afraid of Muslims.

last year it was Ebola.

UBBLUE15

353 MASS SHOOTINGS….taking away law-abiding citizens guns isn’t the answer. While it hasn’t happened yet, that’s what it is leaning to.
Novel idea…let’s enforce the laws already on the books (have been for years) and stop coddling and making excuses for murderers and other criminals. Lax courts are the problem…something is either right or wrong but not some relativistic mumbo-jumbo crap.

That, and there is some serious spiritual problems occurring.

Reality Check

ALL those people were law-abiding citizens right up until they pulled the Tigger.

nice try, NO cigar.

UBBLUE15

Never pull a Tigger by his tail…..

Reality Check

God you are pulling out all the talking Points today, like a good brainwashed drone.

“Novel idea…let’s enforce the laws already on the books (have been for years)”

so the disingenuous con throws out the old standard.

so I guess this is the first time you have heard of “loopholes”, right con?

gun show loophole and the INTERNET are pretty big holes in the “laws” you want to be enforced.

IF all the law-abiding citizens want guns they NEED to REGISTER THEM and GET TRAINING just like owning a car.

insurance would be good as well.
that way the families of the 22 killed in sandy hook would get more than a body bag after the event.

gieco gun insurance wold have paid out dearly.

UBBLUE15

Actually, registering and training are super ideas. Insurance as an option.
In general, laws need to be enforced so law breakers cannot continue in their evil deeds. We are seeing the results of lax enforcement over the past few decades.
Also, gun owners can register and background checks done until hell freezes over but a criminal will always be able to skip the system.
Also, if someone who checks out clean and then goes koo-koo, so much for the background check.
These problems are not enough to disarm the citizenry, most who will NOT misuse a gun or kill anyone.

Reality Check

ONE kid was killed by a lawn dart and they were BANNED in the US and CANADA.

a few hundred kids are killed ACCIDENTALLY each year by guns and the gun crowd says NOTHING.

you think that is right?

ONE kid died by falling into a swimming pool and Jeb Bush pushed through a bill to FORCE fences on ALL pool in the state.

a few hundred kids are killed ACCIDENTALLY each year by guns and the gun crowd says NOTHING.

you get the HYPOCRISY of the right yet?

UBBLUE15

What should the “gun crowd” say or do?
Should the parents be held liable for neglect and reckless endangerment of their child? Yes.
This falls in the parents’ court because there are designated places to store guns and ammo where kids cannot get to them.
Your logic is flawed. They didn’t outlaw swimming pools and kids still drown in them, with or without fences.
Hunters get accidently shot each hunting season. Bad thing, but should we outlaw guns because of it?
Farmers get run over by their tractor each year, should we outlaw tractors and farming?

You are just arguing for arguing’s sake.

Are you scared of legit gun owners? They are not out to get you. Keep repeating that until it sinks in.

UBBLUE15

We need to CHECK out a potential gun buyer in detail BUT someone hell bent on killing will obtain a gun from somewhere.
The majority of gun owners are not cold-blooded killers.

Why are people acting this way is the question we should be concerned with.

Reality Check

“Why are people acting this way is the question we should be concerned with.”

right wing HATE media PROMOTES VIOLENCE.
and you are a part of that here on Right Wing unfilteredpatriots.

I would guess the constant BABY KILLING rhetoric that the dude in Co heard each day is what sent him out to kill at PP.

guns could easily have bio-metric trigger locks.

that would save the few hundred kids killed each year.

but the NRA fight anything sensible.

i don’t think cons really care about life after it is out of the womb.

Reality Check

“This is our country so let’s stop the pandering to people who hate us.”

so lets get the fuck out of their country and they will stop hating us.
let the local deal with it.

what a novel idea.

UBBLUE15

Do you drive a car or do you pedal a tricycle?

Agree, we should have left things alone over there, esp. with all the leader toppling. There, it takes mean cusses to keep the people in order. There will never be democracy there because their holy book does not teach those concepts.

Here’s to less dependence on THEIR oil…buy a horse, or, in your case, keep the tricycle well lubed with olive oil.

Reality Check

I live in a small community and walk almost everywhere.
do maybe 100 miles a month if that.

you afraid of oil issues?

you think Saudi is going to stop pumping?

you not aware we have a HUGE SURPLUS of oil in this country?

are you aware the US oil industry is CUTTING BACK due to depressed prices and a GLUT.

i guess not.
cons are not informed

UBBLUE15

The only thing scary here is another response from you blown all out of proportion.

The ONLY point made here was WHY we are over there…OIL.
And control issues.

Reality Check

try being less cryptic, you get better responses.

Reality Check

“There will never be democracy there because their holy book does not teach those concepts.”

you need to get over this shit and become in informed human for a change.

does the low info con know how many Democracies exist with countries FULL Of Muslims?
some working better than others

Indonesia for example.

UBBLUE15

THERE = MIDDLE EAST

Yes, there are nations with bunches o’ Moslems like in Europe? Bunches o’ problems, too.

You’ll see.

Reality Check

MUSLIMS fool, we are talking about MUSLIMS and ISLAM for a geographic area.

I love the way you disingenuous tools change things after being prove not too bright.

no cigar silly con.

“There will never be democracy there because their holy book does not teach those concepts.”

SEE, you don’t seem to be mentioning the middle east, you were talking about the BOOK.

stop being a disingenuous tool.

Reality Check

“I’m haven’t been tricked into thinking that Islam is “peaceful”.”

NO, you have been brainwashed into thinking Islam is evil.
that is kind of the point of our conversation.

UBBLUE15

It is.

Reality Check

“A filtering system needs to be in place but if the government cannot determine right from wrong”

what the hell do you think an 18-24 month screening process IS?

why are you cons so ignorant of the details of ANYTHING?

UBBLUE15

Read the rest of my post. With the way the government is, what criteria is being used for “screening”? “Are you a member of ISIS?” Yes or No? OK, you may enter”.

YOU think I am a “con”…silly assumption.

Can’t you answer all on one page?

UBBLUE15

Thanks.

Sharon Bauerle

Really? How many times did Obama ignore Congress to get his own way??

Dane

Yes, we have a constitution which is SUPPOSED to be a ‘check and balance’ system, but, we are also required to only elect a president who is a ‘natural born citizen’ as well! (Ignored that one!) Only ONE of Obama’s parents was a US citizen and THAT ALONE should have disqualified him from the office of president OR vice president!! What do you do with an Obama who totally IGNORES and HATES the constitution? He’s chosen to ignore the FACTS of the Constitution from day one until now and he’s speeding up his personal/private agenda to destroy America the closer we get to the end of his term of office. He will not leave office quietly; too many muslim’s in high places would lose their jobs!

Reality Check

IF you don’t know what constitutes a Natural Born citizen, you should not be commenting about IT or the Constitution.

Obama was born i Hawaii, low info con.

Justice

Winston Churchill: 1920 “From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

PUHLEEZE! obama is so far from being a christian as the east is from the west. If a wolf wears a sign that says he is a sheep, do you let him run with the herd of sheep-or if stupid says he is smart-do you hire him for a job like Admiral Rickover’s? Not a single one of of the people you mentioned are Christians.
The Bible says “Many will come to me saying Lord didn’t we do marvelous things in your name. And the Lord said depart from me, you workers of iniquity, I never knew you.” ( semi-paraphrased)! He called them white washed seplechurs filled with dead men’s bones!
It takes far more to be a Christian than to say you are or going to church. I strongly suspect the closest obama will get to God, is when he is told his final destination is a little warm! Why do you people talk about Christianity when you have no idea what it is? How many times or hours have you spent reading the Bible? How familiar are you with the scriptures? It isn’t wise to comment like one is an expert unless you are an expert~

Reality Check

“PUHLEEZE! obama is as far from being a christian as the east is from the west.”

OH, MORE PROOF, you cons are a MORONS.
Oh and a bible hugger.

I guess you are just a FAKE Christian, or did you forget what the bible says about Judging people?

so what evidence are you going to present to GOD when he is sending you to HELL for this?

AND the fact you spread this lie on the internet.

you better be right or your skin is going to roast off.

so lets hear THE PROOF that is going to save your skin.

Reality Check

“What do you do with an Obama who totally IGNORES and HATES the constitution? ”

Oh well, since THAT is a complete LIE.
especially considering Obama is a Constitutional scholar.

would you care to give me some examples of THAT?
you seem to believe many UNSUBSTANTIATED bits of poo.

try and be specific, most cons are vague so they can’t be pinned down for their foolishness.

Justice

President Woodrow Wilson: 1916 “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

sjerseydevil

With sealed reords it’s a bit hard to see what kind of a scholar Obama was.

Reality Check

so name ONE president who’s records are open?

everyone’s records are sealed, silly con.

sjerseydevil

Reality Check, I don’t know of any President in the last 70 years except Obama, that had their records prior to election sealed. You must be smoking some of Obama;’s wacky weed. This is my last response to you because you are not rational.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

You are just making noises, zoehoney.

EMIRCITNA

HOW MUCH has Obama done that is Constitutionally….ILLEGAL?!

sjerseydevil

Please tell that to Obama.

Retired Marine

Looks that way.

Reality Check

we are taking back the nation but you need to be voting for Bernie, or left in the dust bin again.

there is nothing revolutionary about a guy who insults half the world while his only policy statement is
“It Will Be Huge”.
you can’t win without the Hispanic vote and that is not going to happen.
you too silly to see that?
how about the women he has insulted?
blacks?

we do have a bought and paid for congress, that much is true.
you don’t seem to be aware that YOU fools voted them IN.

UBBLUE15

Actually, I’d rather see Bernie than hillary get the nomination.
The problem is, when asked about his concept of socialism, he just answered with social programs already in place, or were. From Roosevelt onward.
Why not give a real definition of his socialist vision?

hillary is pure damnation for the country, the people, and herself.

Reality Check

“The problem is, when asked about his concept of socialism, he just answered with social programs already in place, or were”

So?
we ARE a democratic Socialist country already.
problem IS, most of the population is too dumb to know that.

UBBLUE15

Yes, and would like to hear Bernie’s ideas on the further expansion of socialism, socialist ideals, democratic socialism, WHATEVER. You know, solutions according to Bernie. Mr. Link, do you have any on this matter?

Mikhail Gorbachev: November 2, 1987 addressed the Soviet Politburo: In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road!? He further reassures his Communist colleagues: Comrades, do not be concerned about all that you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.

Reality Check

For a second you almost sound like a rational America, then you go all stupid.

” Hillary should be in prison along with her husband, Obama, Kerry and the list goes on and on.”

lets hear some charges that don’t make me laugh?

you don’t seem to be in the real world with that comment.
you must be a another brainwashed con, void of FACTS.

got any FACTS to share Ken or just the Talking points?

Justice

President Franklin Roosevelt: November 21, 1933, “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

You might hold your revolution at bay until we see what the GOP leadership is up to. I hope it isn’t true, but they appear to be acting as though they will take the election out of the hands of the people if they chose Donald Trump. That would be worth a revolution for me.

Reality Check

if you think there is going to be a revolution, you need to get some help.

1 in 14 bought a new car last year, almost a record high.
THAT sound like country in peril?

stop listening to Right Wing HATE.

Penny Stute

You think? I think they have all been blackmailed! Why do you think Snowden fled the country? He saw something that scared him so bad he had to run and I would bet dollars to bullets that was part of it. There is no way a coup de etat can take place any other way, than bribing the entire justice system, including the the supreme court.

Loretta Siani

I know it’s a harsh thing but what’s left to do when the wolves put on sheep’s clothing? Of course the staff of the white house is full of wolves. So is Hillary’s staff. Their outrage is not surprising. It’s a decoy.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

More so Stinkin thinkin!

Marie Hoffman

Would not believe Ted Cruz fully, he was very much in favor of Illegals only a few years ago and against the wall. Trump is the only one who stands steady in his believe of making America Great again. Bush, Obama and the Liberals have never meant to build that wall, Trump will! He heard our voices, we were calling for that wall for years, Trump has heard us and is standing for a better America. Giving us back our real America- about time. That is why Americans love Trump not fear just finally someone hearing us and standing with us.

zoehoney

Coming in LEAGALLY! I have followed him for years and he has always said legally. He would see this is done I feel. The man is smart and FOR THE PEOPLE of this country LISTEN to him. He is in my opinion the ONLY candidate for President.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

I agree! But I don’t limit my vote to Cruz as you seem to. I could easily vote for Trump and have supported Carson.

Lili J

1) Trump met with the Clintons just before announcing his bid to run.
2) Trump has donated MILLIONS to the Clintons, the Clinton cause AND teh Democrats.
3) Trump called those who believe in freedom of speech foolish and called for shutting off the internet., (Ever hear of the US Constitution?)
4) Trump SUPPORTED illegals for many years because as a business man it was cheaper to hire illegals for business.
5) Trump supports partial birth abortion and abortion in general. (You know, partial birth abortion is when the baby is called as it is being delivered or born. They crush the skull or other body parts to make sure the baby is born dead.)
6) Trump is in only to tear apart the GOP so that Hillary and the Clintons come out on top…
7) You may want to rethink who is really best for this job because it AIN’T Trump!

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

Maybe a surprise but your opinion is worth no more than anyone else’s.

Lili J

Not opinion as you suggest. I stated THE FACTS! Learn the difference between facts and opinion. These are easily documented and easy to find…facts.
1) Trump met with the Clintons just before announcing his bid to run.
2) Trump has donated MILLIONS to the Clintons, the Clinton cause AND teh Democrats.
3) Trump called those who believe in freedom of speech foolish and called for shutting off the internet., (Ever hear of the US Constitution?)
4) Trump SUPPORTED illegals for many years because as a business man it was cheaper to hire illegals for business.
5) Trump supports partial birth abortion and abortion in general. (You know, partial birth abortion is when the baby is called as it is being delivered or born. They crush the skull or other body parts to make sure the baby is born dead.)

Marie Hoffman

Koran is the mot violent book ever written. Teaches Islamics to kill anyone that does not believe in Allah. Teaches them to lie when in the foreign land of the infidels and infidels are anyone that is not Islamic. I read a nook years ago titled ” Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” How true that is.

Reality Check

“Koran is the mot violent book ever written.”

next to the BIBLE.

Tell me not too bright Marie, why the 180 million Muslim in Indonesia live peacefully with the 24 million Christians and 10 million Hindus, if what you say is even remotely true?

WHY do the 10 million Muslims here in the US not cut their neighbors head off in the night?
(cause Marie is an low info con)

MAYBE marie is LYING POS?

MAYBE marie is a brainwashed drone of right Wing Propaganda and has not a friggin clue of what she speaks.

liberals don’t make up poo and hide under their beds afraid of the boggyman.

UBBLUE15

Just can’t stick to the subject. Why is it that the subject of Islam cannot be discussed without silly references to the Bible? Because one has no argument?
There are no Christians hell bent on destroying America or anything else.

When push comes to shove, blood runs thicker than water. Muslims COULD join in the fight against terrorism but WON’T. Maybe they are worried about their heads?

Of course, we have the pesky government running interference with such things as sustained wars, funds and guns for the enemy, and lies. For the last 30 years. So, don’t go off on a tirade for Obama. He stinks just like the rest.

The boogeyman poos in your mind.

Reality Check

The Subject, disingenuous tool of the RIGHT, is what ever the bimbo Marie posted.

shall I post some death and destruction from the bible?

I have plenty of argument, silly one.

THIS for example, you morons of the right like to ignore.

“why the 180 million Muslim in Indonesia live peacefully with the 24 million Christians and 10 million Hindus,?”

explain THAT silly human?

How about the 10 million Muslims here in America?

what are they not killing their neighbors?

MAYBE you fools are WRONG.
(and too stupid to know it)

Justice

Islam had expanded and conquered for centuries, and was finally stopped at the gates of Vienna when 40,000 soldiers arrived just in time to stop the Muslim siege of the city.

Islam’s spread has been repressed by superior military force ever since then. Their dominance has been receding since that day. But the new resurgence has set out to finish the goal (Islamic world domination), so they chose September 11th to kick off the new era.

Before I started learning about Islam, I didn’t know about the gates of Vienna. I didn’t know why the Crusades happened. I didn’t know why Middle Eastern countries have seemed so dead-set on destroying Israel.

Reality Check

you shoujld try joining 2015.

Justice

Because Sharia originates with the Quran and the Sunnah, it is not optional. Sharia is the legal code ordained by Allah for all mankind. To violate Sharia or not to accept its authority is to commit rebellion against Allah, which Allah’s faithful are required to combat.

Justice

It is interesting. Once you get over your initial uncomfortable feelings about the subject, you’ll find much to hold your interest. Do you know, for example, why Osama bin Laden chose September 11th as the day of his attack on America? Because the last high-water mark of Islam occurred in 1683 on September 11th.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

I don’t agree with your apparent ideology, but thought you were doing good till you wrote “liberals don’t make up poo and hide under their beds afraid of the bogyman.” Obviously your thinking is as much poo as a lot of other liberal commenters.

Reality Check

SO EXPLAIN INDONESIA.
(and a dozen other countries with similar religious components).

Tim Keller

What Cruz is doing is dead on. Trump says what the majority of voters, left and right want to hear. He, Trump has purposely not tied up to a political party as many Americans are tired of both sides. Denouncing Trump is shining your political beacon. I think as popular as Trump is, he wouldn’t get elected. Next best candidate has shyed away from extreme political party platform.

willr3

good word, and right on target. Not too that Trump has not hit Cruz hard either. I see a Trump -Cruz ticket through the haze.

zoehoney

CRUZ 2016!!!!!!!!!! HE IS SO SMART LETS NOT LET A GREAT MIND GO TO WASTE 🙂

Reality Check

what has he said that is so smart?

the acts like a carnival barker not a smart person.

Bernadette Stengel

I/m with you, Stevon f. Nutt. These so-called enlightened types are in a self-destruct mode. Fine, but they shouldn’t take us with them. Wake up and get real, kids!

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

I think what you just said is wrong but not sure because I don’t know what Stevon f Nutt said that you favor. Oh well!

Lili J

Absolutely right on!
In my humble opinion, CRUZ IS the person to help America get reunited, get healthy and strong again,.

Reality Check

they guy who thinks the BIBLE has precedent over the Constitution?

the guy who thinks God wants him to be pres?

the guy who got 35 million FROM THREE People?
the guy who is bought and paid for?

are you on drugs?

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

You really don’t belong here Reality Check.

Reality Check

you cons are no longer allowed to LIE TO EACH OTHER.
sorry.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

And Trump in his cabinet is different enough to be effective in bringing conservative change to this dysfunctional federal government.

Lili J

No… Trump as a RINO in sheep clothing will do harm to this country…
Chose wisely or pay the price… You cannot undo all the injury and harm that has already been done under Obama.

Reality Check

“You cannot undo all the injury and harm that has already been done under Obama.”

lets examine reality.

Before Obama, we were losing 700,000 jobs per month
After Obama, gaining 200,000 jobs per month.

Before Obama, GDP negative for a year
After Obama, GDP became positive and now the best in the G-20

Before Obama, DOW 6500
After Obama, DOW 17,000

if there was a GOP president you would be all saying what a great recovery we have had.

you cons need to STOP LYING.

Lili J

1) Again, since the manner in which unemployment has been “corrected” shall we say, the actual numbers for unemployment are far greater than you have posted and no where reflects reality.

2) The United States is the world’s largest economy. Yet, in the last two decades, like in the case of many other developed nations, its growth rates have been decreasing. If in the 50’s and 60’s the average growth rate was above 4 percent, in the 70’s and 80’s dropped to around 3
percent. In the last ten years, the average rate has been below 2 percent and since the second quarter of 2000 has never reached the 5 percent level. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth-annual

3) Highest personal income rate in 10 years! The Personal Income Tax Rate in the United States stands at 39.60 percent. Personal Income Tax Rate in the United States averaged 35.84 percent from 2004 until 2014, reaching an all time high of 39.60 percent in 2013 and a record low of 35 percent in 2005. Personal Income Tax Rate in the United States is reported by the Internal Revenue Service.
so, what were you saying about ???

Gerry Costa

And to top it all off — the terrorist attack in San Bernadino is being called ( are you ready for this ) ” gun violence ” by the POS fraud in our WH. He will stoop to any low to push his gun-grabbing agenda and you watch all his azz kissing media networks jump on board including Fox.

Your vote on this issue is important. If you vote, you are helping to elect representatives and leaders who make legal and political decisions, like how to change the immigration policies, and who to prosecute for trying to overthrow the government. When you understand more about Islam and its relationship to terrorism, you will be able to know which leaders have a grasp on this subject and which do not, and vote accordingly.

Richard Bagenstose

cruz and trump and carson , all know americans are just as sick of the gop lies as we are with the dems lies, and anyone who is willing to stand up and speak the truth about what washington is really doing will shoot up in the poles , but like the rest of the gop candidates , only speak half heartedly about it , because they don’t really believe what they are saying, like hillary say what ever it takes to win , no truth envolved

Irene Elizabeth Grooms

I’m saying TRUMP for President and CRUZ for V. President.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

Good for me!

headonstraight

Trump has indeed accomplished a remarkable thing. Despite his record of broken marriages and outspoken statements of disrespect for women, he has corralled a large sector of evangelical supporters who seem to regard his bigotry, brashness, foul mouth and dubious morals as acceptable for so long as the varmint spews the ultra-rightist agenda. Some quotes from the Trumpster:

“You know, it really doesn`t matter what [the media] write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” –Donald Trump

“You know, it really doesn`t matter what [the media] write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” –Donald Trump

“All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” –Donald Trump

“I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” –Donald Trump, when asked how he would react if Ivanka posed for Playboy

“She really has become a monster … I mean monster in the most positive way.” –Donald Trump, on his pregnant wife Melania

“You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.” –Donald Trump

“My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.” –Donald Trump

For over four hours my post above has been on this very active site and no Trumpite lackey has come forth to dispute it. Embarrassed by this, you hypocrites? You should be. You would lose no time blasting a Democrat with the sad, sorry record of moral corruption and misogyny that Trump has demonstrated, but you are willing to accept Trump’s sorry baggage of the same commodities, since he tickles your self-righteous ears with his bigoted balderdash!

gerald Hughes

Trump/Cruz there is a white house duo, to get American back on track.

Conservative

The worst thing Trump could do is attack CRUZ while Cruz maintains he integrity and sticks to the issues.
If the whimpering candidates continuing going along with the Democrats and MSM it will be they who give the election and Country to Hellary. They need to grow up.
As an aside, I’m so sick of Rubio flashing that fake smile even when he is engaged in critical issues. He seems to think that he can win people over by smiling. He really is a RINO and wants the presidency for his own ego and gratification.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

Maybe Rubio will get more conservative as he ages, but I like some things he says and some I don’t like.

kotoc

Here’s an article some of you might find interesting:

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Calling for a moratorium on Muslim immigration “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,” Donald Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions.

As all the old hate words — xenophobe, racist, bigot — have lost their electric charge from overuse, and Trump was being called a fascist demagogue and compared to Hitler and Mussolini.

The establishment seemed to have become unhinged.

Why the hysteria? Comes the reply: Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration tramples all over “American values” and everything we stand for, including the Constitution.

But is this really true?

The Constitution protects freedom of religion for U.S. citizens. But citizens of foreign lands have no constitutional right to migrate. And federal law gives a president broad powers in deciding who comes and who does not, especially in wartime.

In 1924, Congress restricted immigration from Asia, reduced the numbers coming from southern and Central Europe, and produced a 40-year moratorium on most immigration into the United States.

Its authors and President Coolidge wanted ours to remain a nation whose primary religious and ethnic ties were to Europe, not Africa or Asia.

Under FDR, Truman and JFK, this was the law of the land.

Did this represent 40 years of fascism?

Why might Trump want a moratorium on Muslim immigration?

Reason one: terrorism. The 9/11 terrorists were Muslim, as were the shoe and underwear bombers on those planes, the Fort Hood shooter, the Times Square bomber and the San Bernardino killers.

And as San Bernardino showed again, Islamist terrorists are exploiting our liberal immigration policies to come here and kill us.

Thus, a pause, a timeout on immigration from Muslim countries, until we fix the problem, would seem to be simple common sense.

Second, Muslims are clearly more susceptible to the siren call of terrorism, and more likely to be radicalized on the Internet and in mosques than are Christians at church or Jews at synagogue.

Which is why we monitor mosques more closely than cathedrals.

Third, according to Harvard’s late Samuel Huntington, a “clash of civilizations” is coming between the West and the Islamic world. Other scholars somberly concur. But if such a conflict is in the cards, how many more millions of devout Muslims do we want inside the gates?

Set aside al-Qaida, ISIS and their sympathizers. Among the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide are untold millions of followers of the Prophet who pray for the coming of a day when sharia is universal and the infidels, i.e., everyone else, are either converted or subjugated.

In nations where Muslims are already huge majorities, where are the Jews? Where have all the Christians gone?

With ethnic and sectarian wars raging in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and Somalia, why would we bring into our own country people from all sides of these murderous conflicts?

Many European nations — Germans, French, Swedes, Brits — appear to regret having thrown open their doors to immigrants and refugees from the Islamic world, who have now formed unassimilated clusters and enclaves inside their countries.

Ought we not explore why, before we continue down this road?

In some countries of the Muslim world, Americans who embrace “Hollywood values” regarding abortion, adultery and homosexuality, can get their heads chopped off as quickly as converts to Christianity.

In what Muslim countries does Earl Warren’s interpretation of the First Amendment — about any and all religious presence being banned in public schools and all religions being treated equally — apply?

When is the next “Crusade for Christ” coming to Saudi Arabia?

Japan has no immigration from the Muslim world, nor does Israel, which declares itself a Jewish state. Are they also fascistic?

President Obama and the guilt-besotted West often bawl their apologies for the horrors of the Crusades that liberated Jerusalem.

Anyone heard Muslim rulers lately apologizing for Saladin, who butchered Christians to take Jerusalem back, or for Suleiman the Magnificent, who conquered the Christian Balkans rampaging through Hungary all the way to the gates of Vienna?

Trump’s surge this week, in the teeth of universal denunciation, suggests that a large slice of America agrees with his indictment — that our political-media establishment is dumb as a box of rocks and leading us down a path to national suicide.

Trump’s success tells us that the American people really do not celebrate “globalization.” They think our negotiators got snookered out of the most magnificent industrial machine ever built, which once guaranteed our workers the highest standard of living on earth.

They don’t want open borders or mass immigration. They want people here illegally to be sent back, the borders secured, and a moratorium imposed on Muslim immigration until we fix the broken system.

As for the establishment, they are saying pretty much what The Donald is saying. To paraphrase Oliver Cromwell’s speech to the Rump Parliament:

You have sat here too long for any good you have done here. In the name of God, go!

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

It surprises me how easily liberals lean on the constitution for things it doesn’t say. Like they see American culture as something that needs to be changed.

Reality Check

Oh, is American Culture in the constitution?

Please tell me where that is covered.

Reality Check

HEY, you still looking for the part of the constitution that has American Culture covered?

you weren’t LYING were you Jeff?

TPS12

The gop are just like dems and they just won’t admit it to themselves. That’s why Trump is so appealing not PC but tells the truth. The gop has abandoned many of us in their own party and don’t care. They send survey after survey and nothing changes. Get it through thick PC heads were tired of your inaction put American citizens and our country first.

Jeffrey A Douglass Sr.

They know what they are TP12. They are more concerned with themselves then the people, or their own children’s future for that matter. It amazes me how self-centered rich people seem to be.

Kevin

Well, if Trump gets the nomination, he will need someone to run with him as the VP. Maybe that’s the winning ticket – Trump/Cruz?

peter

Reality Check, are you still waiting for your welfare check you f–ing moron? Cruz will have Hillary shitting in her orange pantsuit!

OSAMA OBAMA

Boom! Senilitychick has been pimp slapped again! LMAO!

peter

No one whines as much as a liberal like you about everything, unreality check. Get a new name you pathetic a-hole!

OSAMA OBAMA

Go easy, he’s old and infests Kalaphornia, enough said!

OSAMA OBAMA

Correct! We are so used to rinos, libTURD democrats and other sissified, limp wristed politicos that when a real man comes along, we jump on his band wagon! Screw you rinos, Obama, Boxers, Feinsteins, Bromnstains…….

VanceJ

Get rid of the Republican Rhinos. If you want our country back !!!!!!!

HILLARY AND STALIN FOREVER. KILLING COPS IS NOTHING NEW. IN NEW YORK A MOSQUE TRAP
STALIN AND HILLARY

STALIN WON BY A LANDSLIDE. NO COMPETITION IN COMMUNISM. HILLARY IS LEADING IN THE POLLS JUST LIKE STALIN.
ONCE AGAIN NO COMPETITION.

IF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAD ALL WHITE PEOPLE RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY THE RACIST LABEL WOULD BE EVERYWHERE. WE HAVE 15 CANDIDATES FROM THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF AMERICA. THE PARTY OF DEATH HAS THREE GHOSTS.

YOU HEARD ABOUT THE SILENT MAJORITY? WELL NOW IT IS THE SILENCED MAJORITY IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL INCLUSIVE COMRADE? THERE IS A SILENCED MAJORITY IN THE PARTY DE LA MUERTE AND AT ELECTION TIME SHOUTING IT IS HILLARY ALL THE WAY BUT NOT TODAY. I AM PULLING THE LEVER OF FREEDOM FOR EL TRUMPO AND MY MAN TRUMP. WATCH AND LEARN RINOS. MORE TEA ANYBODY?

BARTENDER CHAMPAGNE! I HAVE A COUPON.

SPIRIT OF AMERICA PARTY RADIO SHOW AND BOOK.
Subject: 911 DANNY BOY WE REMEMBER

Funny, the article I just read has nothing to do about what you people are commenting on!

jdobbinsPHD

Take another look at what Trump said. He said to bar Muslims from coming in UNTIL our leadership puts a plan in place for vetting the immigrants that makes sense. Everyone is focused on the first part of his statement and ignoring the second part. They are engaged in the typical left-wing tactic of reflected responsibility to avoid accepting responsibility. Trump is putting the responsibility where it belongs, at the feet of Obama, the attorney general, and others with the responsibility for protecting Americans. He is not saying keep them out. He is saying keep them out UNTIL, which makes a lot of sense considering the stated intent of ISIS to kill Americans.

truthtester

America’s last opportunity to turn around is now. If Hillary is elected she will be our last President. America will cease to exist as we know it.

Paul Brown

The American people are getting just what they want now for years with Trump, they are sick of the same old shit and the DEMONcraps calling us stupid and that we need them to do our thinking for us, well that is and always has been shit. We have no need for assholes who are trying to destroy America as we know it today, and we are tired of the left controlling every aspect of our lives also. The need to keep the hell out of our lives, when it is clear that they can’t even run their own lives. Trump is saying the real truth of how people feel about everything over the last 7 years now, this mus-slime bullshit has got to stop and Osama your DEMON Islamic dictator is not going to stop it, because he is one of them.

Last of the patriots

The article is right, the rhino’s polititions are the same, liars, thieves, and unamerican. Just demonrats. Trump is American and that’s what all those unamerican people who are destroying our country are threatened by Trump, because he is American and he supports Americans. That is why the infiltrators of our government, are scared. They don’t want an anti Establishment American in office, because he will support our Constitution. And they won’t be able to destroy our country no more. I just hope people understand, that Muslims already have infiltrated our government. Why do you think they are destroying American values. If the American people don’t stand up now and just the enemy, the prepare for a country that is no longer the United States of America.

MARYSWEET

I think maybe Cruz just isn’t a name calling man. He has better manners and is a Christian. I like what Trump says but he is an outspoken New Yorker and he tells it like it is. I would love to see a Trump/Cruz ticket and then next time around Cruz can run for President and win.

Austinniceguy

IF Hitlery gets in we’re going to see the end of our country. She is all in for bringing in 200,000 syrian savages as a humanitarian act. We have witnessed that even a 27 year old mother of a 6 month old daughter is ready to kill as many Americans as she can, even if it means dying, herself. These animals have NO regard for their own lives and even less, for ours. Here is a clear example of what happens when you let down your guard with those savages. You owe it to yourself to watch.

I am voting for Trump he is not a politician he is an American and tired of what the Politicians are doing to this country IDIOTS. This has to stop if we want our country back.

Ah nutz

1 important thing I’m not hearing=Who’s more suited to deal w/our ‘way beyond control financial crap’ ….maybe not even a “money man” like Trump , but I for one think if anyone can help us there most=IT’S TRUMP…Trump-Cruz 2016

dude

it ain’t even close to being a religion …it’s crack pot following a bigger crack pot and all of them are a bunch of idiots …get mohamad and all muslims out of this country before we let them destroy our country the way they’ve destroyed their own country and many more go trump 2016

1josephg1

the koran says death to all infidels and that it is ok to lie if it promotes allah. Jesus says “come unto to me who are heavy laden and I will give you rest”. I will take Jesus and His Father all the days of my life.

Solid_Facts

Actually, Trump sees through the smoke and takes the lead. Cruz, on the other hand, just sees where Trump leads and then says, “Me too! Look over here! Me too!” When I voted for Cruz for the Senate, I expected him to be a leader, not the cautious follower he has become.

jreg9304

the only help that muslims need is the burning of all copies of their book and all of them put too immediate death. compassion to a compassionless people, not in my book. Even God admitted to Noah that he had made a big mistake with the great flood. myself, i think the bible is the greatest book ever written. the islamic book is the worst piece of garbage ever.

billwhit

Only two people worth supporting in 2016 and that is Trump and Cruz, the rest need to go home and stop wasting taxpayer money on their failed campaigns. I hope for a Trump/Cruz ticket, four or eight of Trump, then another eight of Cruz/? and maybe we will have most of the damage repaired from the Queer Muslim Kenyan Pigs eight years. Obama is eaten up with the Syphilis of the Soul, Islam, and is NOT an “American” in any way, shape, or form! Why do you think he keeps his Records SEALED Tight? Obama is nothing more than a queer Islamic Pig!

zoehoney

T.C. is the only Senator and Candidate that is standing up for the FREEDOM of the American people and the Constitution. He is not afraid to call a spade a spade and call out LYING OBAMA.

Dannie Poe

Agree 100%. Our President and the government are out of touch with the people. Have been for way too long. If Trump is forced out by Establishment Republicans my vote goes to Cruz. We need a person who will defy the Party Politics and right the ship. If we do not right the ship we will be a Socialist nation with Sharia Law. We can not let that happen!

kotoc

Amen!!! I hope Trump wins and has Cruz as his running mate…. or vise versa, it doesn’t matter… just so long as it is those two, I’ll be happy.

Maggiemae

Me too!!!!

Reality Check

if they force out trump, they are not going to let in Cruz.

He’s a wild card.
NEVER HAPPEN

Maggiemae

I have had enough of the RNC and its leaders. They pushed ‘their’ people on us in 2008 and 2012 and what did we get…Obama!!!! The American people have finally woken up and smelled the rot in DC. Now I read about ‘brokering’ so they can once again pick who they want to run not who we, the people want to run. The ‘O’ warned us in the 2008 campaign that he wanted to ‘fundamentally transform’ this country and that’s exactly what he’s doing. Sad thing is the sheeples are following…morons with no brains of their own…just led by the nose to their own destruction. And I wouldn’t care one bit about that except that millions of us do not want anything to do with the Muslims and their Sharia Laws and that really is the very last thing we want to happen in this country. We really have to fight against that. Term limits for Congress a must!!!!! One 6 year term for President also a must!!! Re-cycle them all…no re-elections with no end in sight! It’s hard to tell the Demorats from the Repulicant’s in Congress these days.

Reality Check

Oh, please elaborate on the transformation of the country?

Before Obama, we were losing 700,000 jobs per month
After Obama, gaining 200,000 jobs per month

Before Obama, GDP negative for a year
After Obama, GDP became positive and now the best in the G-20

Before Obama, DOW 6500
After Obama, DOW 17,000

YOUR RIGHT!

He transformed us from a FAILING economy to a STRONG economy

Maggiemae

Oh please!!!! Just keep smokin’ whatever you have and enjoy the cozy world you’ve created.

Reality Check

Was that a con proving me wrong?

does the moron think any of the those facts are wrong?

I am afraid NOT fool.

Dan

I am not convinced.

Reality Check

you’re not very specific either.
so is my dow wrong?

is my GDP in error?

how about the jobs info?

you will find I am informed.

Dan

Here is the REAL FACT. You are a pawn in a rigged game. The numbers that you so desperately cling to like a passage in the Bible, are exaggerated, and artificially propped up. The government (central bank, commonly known as the FED) wants you to believe that the worst is over, when in reality, it hasn’t even begun. These numbers are a fabrication of the hyperinflation that is about to be loosed on us. They know that there is nothing that they can do to stop it, and they longer that they prop it up, the worse it will be. Happy camping.

Reality Check

so this is you saying my numbers are correct but EVERYONE is being lied to BUT YOU.

is that your point Dan?

so WHO are you listening to and what are their numbers Dan?

according to cons the US is going to collapse any moment.
HARDLY since we are the STRONGEST economy in the G-20

Dan

Not everyone, only the ones that believe the BS that the federal government tell them.

SouthernPatriot

Rev. Franklin Graham agrees with Trump for at least a temporary moratorium on Muslims allowed into this country until they can be properly and completely vetted.

One group which is living and acting by the commands of Mohammad as written in the Quran is IS/IL/IS. The westernized Muslims are worth of death according to the Quran.

Reality Check

TRUMP 2016 or BOYCOTT the election!!

Pamela Craghill

Donald Trump said nothing wrong. He only said the borders should be closed whilst his country was sorted out. He is definately right. If it doesn’t happen, the true Americans will regret for the rest of time that they did not do it. When they have enough of them to terrorise and get rid of any Christians. They will overtake the country and the proud country of America will no longer be. The man needs listening to and accepting that he is right. It is not racist to care about your country and keep it safe and decent.

Reality Check

Americans should be EMBARRASSED by the Right wing NUTS that are running about like hysterical little children.

America, Land of the SCARED and AFRAID.

“The man needs listening to and accepting that he is right.”

Trump is a NUT pandering to YOU Fools.

France REITERATES their desire to TAKE IN Refugees after the attack.

American conservatives make a bee line for under the bed.

Pamela Craghill

Reality Check, our paths have clashed before and I found to my cost that you are an idiotic Muslim fool, who has to insult everybody you speak to, as you cannot make a convincing argument. Don’t bother replying to me, as I won’t answer your filthy insults. Although it is what can only be expected from someone of your ilk. Now go be foul to someone else.

Reality Check

Ok Pam, you just ignore the part were FRANCE is SO much braver than America.

You low info humans will NOT be allowed to make up POO.

Truth

O’Crapo is called the, ‘Son of Satan, by Reverend Manning “. Thank you, Dan Menard, I totally agree. God does not advocate the killing of others as a way of being rewarded. We do not go around chopping off peoples heads, Raping women and children and doing Evil and despicable acts. Our God is a God of love, compassion and forgiveness. There is Good and Evil and its up to you to choose the right one. An Old Cherokee told his grandson,”My Son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is EVIL! It is Anger, Jealousy, Greed. Resentment , Inferiority, lies and Ego. The other is Good! It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Humility , Kindness Empathy, and Truth. The boy thought about it, and asked,”Grandfather, which Wolf wins?” The old man quietly replied, “THE One You Feed,” Hillary has been feeding the Evil inside her for years, O’Crapo and her are two venomous snakes . Go to Reverend Manning Web Site to find the truth.

Arizona Don

Not all muslims are roaming the world beheading or caging and drowning or burning alive people who do not agree with them or their religion. “BUT those who “are” are all muslim.” So why should we import people who have sworn to kill or destroy us? They have told us they will infiltrate the refugees. So not letting those kind in seems like the thing to do. Some think that is not what we are. So what are we stupid because if we let them in knowing that we are! STUPID!

Let me get this straight. We were the bad guys when we water boarded (3) terrorists to get information. Yet many oppressive, regressive people who refer to themselves as democrats stick up for and want to import those who have sworn to kill us? Saying that is not what we stand for well what do we stand for anymore? Must not be intelligence! We keep importing terrorists, keep our border open so they can come in unchecked and release them we have captured and jailed in Gitmo to keep then from going back into the fight against us and obama releases them. Looks like our president is on their side. But it does not seem we are acting intelligent about this. Combs says he is investigating over a thousand now. It only took 19 to kill three thousand in 01.

The primary number one duty of the president of the United States of America is to keep the nation and citizens secure. That is not what is happening and has NOT been happening for seven years now and there is no chance anything will change anytime soon. At least until January 2017.

There is an underlying point to everything Donald Trump brings up. The way he says some things is controversial but the point(s) is not.

dude

go trump 2016 and cruz for vice president or maybe carson for vice president either one as long as trumps president they would get this country back on track …and our borders closed